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Författaren Wang Jibing är en budbärare med en sammanlagd resa på 150 000 kilometer, motsvarande att springa fram och tillbaka längs Kinesiska muren 15 gånger. Under dagarna med pendling genom staden har han sett många människor som kämpar för överlevnad, som budbärare, migrantarbetare, barnvakter och städare. Som en trubadur från arbetarklassen registrerar Wang Jibing hans och deras svåra situationer och deras värdighet som arbetare. I de intensiva tiderna skrev han dikter på cigarettaskar och tidningspapper, vilket är folksånger på arbetsplatsen, livliga och skarpa. Vissa av dem blev slumpmässigt delade på internet och väckte oväntad empati. Denna bok är den första publikationen av hans dikter i samling.

Embark on a universal voyage through the rich tapestry of human experience, a narrative that mirrors your own life's saga. This book captures the essence of existence, our collective tales of joy and sorrow, love and loss, and the myriad decisions that shape our days. From the rollercoaster ride of adolescence to the serenity of our twilight years, each chapter resonates with a truth you've lived: the thrill of love, the search for self, the grief of goodbyes, and the introspection in life's quiet moments. The author weaves these shared threads into a story that feels deeply personal, reflecting the shifting landscapes of our lives. Readers will see themselves on these pages, finding comfort, inspiration, and a reflection of their journey in a life that, while unique, is connected by common threads to all. This story promises to tug at your heartstrings, provoke thought, and perhaps draw a tear or a smile, reminding you of the profound simplicity of being human.

In this powerful and moving collection, Vietnam War veteran Every Man bares his soul through poetry that vividly captures the fear, anguish, camaraderie and haunting memories of war. With stark imagery and raw emotions, these verses transport the reader to the jungles of Vietnam, inside the mind of a young soldier thrust into unimaginable horrors. His words give an unflinching look at the brutal realities of combat and its lifelong aftershocks, including the challenges of returning home to a society that doesn't understand.Covering his tours of duty and the decades that followed, these poems grapple with themes of survival, grief, alienation, and the struggle to heal from the physical and psychological trauma of war. While the Vietnam War is the focal point, many of the poems draw parallels to other conflicts and deliver a thought-provoking commentary on war in general. This timely and timeless collection is a must-read for veterans, their loved ones, and anyone seeking to better understand the true costs of combat and the resilience of the human spirit. A Soldier's Poems ensures that the sacrifices of Vietnam veterans and the realities they faced will never be forgotten.

The poems in Natalie Ann Holborow's Little Universe are an exploration of tumultuous human emotions and nature's ever-present rhythms.

In this stunning collection of forty-nine poems, Fadi Yousef takes the reader on a personal journey about the power of love and joy, loss and grief. This collection of poems equates the strength of internal emotions with the outside world, using natural imagery to convey a person's innermost feelings. Dedicated to their family, the sense of family is evocatively threaded throughout the poems. The sense of love and security family brings and the sense of pain and loss a family bears together are all deftly woven together.

Finding hope in the depths of disconnection, Under The Sun Our Hearts Are Beating is a gathering of consciousness by Seki Lynch, seeking to dissolve some of the invisible barriers between us.

Nico Vela Page's Americón is a collection of poems in Spanglish that weaves a space for the queer, trans body to know the land, and itself, as extensions of each other. The land is the desert of Northern New Mexico, the forgotten Pan-American Highway, the space between our thighs, the quaking cordillera of Chile, the moans of elk, and the ripe fruit waiting to be picked. Through archive, attention, and erotic ecopoetics, Page's debut collection of poems extends far across the page, the gender binary, language, and the Americas to find out who we are by asking where we are. Nico Vela Page's Americón is the 2020 Open Reading Period Book Prize winner, and was selected by guest judge Renee Gladman.

The debut poetry collection by queer writer and spoken word artist Michael Mullen. Lay Down with Dogs is a paean of working class life, queer triumph and the sensual power of poetry; a sample of the work recently won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2022.

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen here shows how Romantic and Victorian writers used such forms in their work to invest ordinary material life with spiritual and ethical meaning.

As the hell year of 2020 was drawing to a close, and the collective anxieties of every able-minded person in America were making their threat whispers to never, ever go away no matter how many times you brushed your teeth, Jeffrey Eugene Hoch (the author of this book) had an idea. He would write a poem - or something approximating one - for every calendar day of the upcoming year of 2021. The main reason he wanted to do this was to keep his artistic conscience from atrophying across another potential year of emotional isolation, illness avoidance, and embarrassing cult stupidity.There was some distant hope that something positive would come out of the process, but that something was unknowable and not even particularly hoped for by the author. A year of video games, whiskey, dates, and deli orders later, Useless Musings was "finished." More accurately, it could just no longer be truthfully worked on because 2021 was over.Anyway, the results of this year-long whatever-it-was are documented here for you to read and maybe have some sort of emotional reaction to. These "musings" felt pretty "useless" as I was writing them (Hi, it's me, Jeff), but maybe you'll enjoy them. That would be cool.

A delightful rhyming story taking readers on a journey through the world of British garden birds and their unique nests, exploring the diversity of nature and the importance of individuality.  The Best Nest Contest promises educational fun, with colourful illustrations bringing this enchanting story to life.

At Least We'll Always Have Spring is a collection of poetry discussing grief, addiction, and mental health in honour of Rachel Ella "Fenway" Balfour. Please consider donating to harm reduction charities, such as Prairie Harm Reduction, to further honour her life.

Under a sky the colour of extinctionyou choose your own conclusion. The Earth might have already done so...and ten thousand years of civilisationwill shrink to an unrepeated moment. The Colour of Extinction is a collection for our times: taking all of nature into its focus, these carefully crafted lines leave the reader mulling over our interaction with - and overuse of - the natural world. Split into four strands, focusing on the climate crisis, birds, Australia and the melting polar caps, The Colour of Extinction forces us to confront the possible futures of the planet that we are destroying yet are so reliant on.

A collection of poetry for the artists, the hopeless romantics, the philosophers, the hurt and the healing, the dreamers, the wild and the timid. An alternative and edgy collection sure to keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat for what's next to come. Each poem is unique and designed with all of the senses in mind to give you an escape to a new world all your own. Poetry that pushes the bounds of the cosmos, and with fierce intensity all while flirting with whimsy. Each verse its own adventure with its own story however you choose to interpret. Inspirational and endearing, honest and bold. Whether you need a little pick me up, or someone to relate to, a friend, a dream, or just a little magic, this book will be right for you. Take my hand and open the page; adventure awaits. With lots of love from my soul to yours.

By the age of twenty-one, Billy the Kid had killed a man for each year he'd been alive. Then he was shot dead in the night by a man he once called a friend.Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

Ella Frears' wry, vivid debut collection, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Dominic Berry presents his favourite pieces for performance from his four adult collections with Flapjack Press - Tomorrow, I Will Go Dancing, Wizard, No Tigers and Yes Life - along with new poetry designed to engage and inspire.

First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously published in periodicals and written by renowned critics of Tennyson's work. This is a must read for scholars of English poetry and English literature.

In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of Heaney's poems, placing his work within both Irish and Anglo-American traditions and explaining his poetry's complex relation to the political troubles in Northern Ireland.

Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of much recent academic and popular interest. Here, Alan Vardy explores the role of walking in Romantic texts from the canonical to the ephemeral, illuminating the quotidian, fleeting events that nonetheless constitute our subjective selves.